Oma Time

Alright- more catch up.  Love hugging kids.

The Aviary has $1 Wednesdays that we have taken advantage of a few times this Spring.  It is an amazing little spot with a fun bird show and tons of great feathered friends to check out.

We use a lot of condiments at our house, and many of them are purchased at Costco.  So, our counter regularly cluttered with these during meal time.  And, the other day, I realized they are all red!  Ha!

If you haven't gathered from the previous posts, Oma has been in town!  She visited from the end of February to the end of March.  We did a MILLION things and accomplished a boat load of tasks at home too....as usual.  It sounds like a crummy month weather wise to be here, but it was beautiful- lots of sun and snow, giving us opportunities to get out on the striders a lot and also on the slopes!

Swimming is kinda huge for us right now.  We get in the pool two to three times a week.  Once a week we do lessons with our AMAZING instructor, Jamie.  She is SO great with Ruby and Owen.  She is cool, but not cold.  Warm, but not too motherly.  She gets about as excited as I do when they take a step forward, and she also just left the Park City area.  She will be teaching in Sugarhouse though, and I am thinking we may make the trek to do lessons with her ever so often still- that is how much I like her.  Ruby and Owen swim under water with confidence, can back float on their own, wear their goggles consistently, and just LOVE the water.  Owen swam the width of the pool on his own the other day and knows how to tread water.  Ruby likes to dive for rings in the shallow end and asks to be "pushed down" cause she is still figuring out how to swim down.

Borrowed swim caps from the lost and found bucket.  Owen loves his skull and cross bones.

Oma got Ruby a new bathing suit, which she desperately needed.  So cute!

During Oma's visit we would swim and she would stay out and take videos.  I need to post some.  Owen and Ruby would watch them over and over when we got home.  

Oma reading the German books that Ingrid and Lens sent us.  Oma would translate them and read in English and Ruby and Owen would tell her to read it in German. :)

I have vivid memories of my mom teaching me to ride a bike in the culdesac and her holding the back of my seat just like this. :)

Making cookies! The facial expressions in these pictures tell the story well.

This picture makes me laugh and mad at the same time.  Owen was being mischievous, Oma thought it was cute, which it was, but then Ruby joined, the energy rose, and next thing I know I am chasing them across the window display into the corner, wrestling with mannequins, antd trying to set limits unsuccessfully.  Sigh.

The cow cookie.  Park City, UT.

Finally, snow dense enough that we could build a snowman.  Literally, this was the first time all year!

Oma, enjoying her new jacket and the freedoms it allows her.

I LOVE this picture.  It summarizes Spring to me- Owen in his sleeveless shirt and shorts riding down the muddy trail followed by Oma in her DOWN jacket.  Opposites existing at the same time.  Awesome.

Oma is gone now, and we miss her a lot!  I am sure she is enjoying the slightly less chaotic existence of living with two toddlers.  Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your help, energy, and time.  We love you!